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For this month’s #TweetToEat, I was tweeted by @newberryontour (otherwise known as in real life, David Newberry). David is an accomplished musician here in Vancouver who tours constantly and has some incredible music that I was lucky enough to hear.

Before I get in to our dinner, here is some more information about #TweetToEat.

How Does it Work?

It’s all about sharing food. You tweet me (@VancityAmy, #TweetToEat), and I reply. We coordinate a time for me to come over to your house. You make a dish that you love, I bring a dish that I love and that’s THAT! It happens once per month.

What’s the point?

The point of #TweetToEat this time around, is to showcase the brave and generous people we have in our city. To show that opening your home and your heart up to someone new, while scary can be incredibly rewarding. I want to showcase great individuals from all walks of life. Show a new perspective on our city and who we are. We are not a city of stuck up people who refuse to talk to one another. We are kind, giving people, who have a passion for others and want to meet new people and do new things.

It’s me, Amy and I’m back with more #TweetToEat goodness! Did you miss me?

Back in April I decided to take on a social experiment. For two solid weeks, I would not eat anything unless it was donated to me by the generosity of people from twitter. I learned a lot about others, made some deep connections with new and old friends and learned to value the importance of sharing food with other people. At the end of the experiment, I donated the money I would have spent on groceries to Save On Meats sandwich tokens (and Vancouverisawesome.com also donated $100 to the cause, which ended up purchasing sandwiches for about 154 people!) The experiment went really well, so well in fact that I have decided to do it again with a few changes this time.

How Does it Work?

This time around, it’s all about sharing food. You tweet me (@VancityAmy, #TweetToEat), and I reply. We coordinate a time for me to come over to your house. You make a dish that you love, I bring a dish that I love and that’s THAT!

What’s the point?

The point of #TweetToEat this time around, is to showcase the brave and generous people we have in our city. To show that opening your home and your heart up to someone new, while scary can be incredibly rewarding. I want to showcase great individuals from all walks of life. Show a new perspective on our city and who we are. We are not a city of stuck up people who refuse to talk to one another. We are kind, giving people, who have a passion for others and want to meet new people and do new things.

My first #TweetToEat with: Billie Kell

I was lucky enough to sit down to dinner with a woman who you cannot really introduce, you must experience her. A woman who commands attention the moment she walks in a room and will make you feel at home in under a minute. What a great way to kick off my first day back at #TweetToEat.

What an incredible two week experience I’ve had. Not only did I meet over 32 new people, 10+ people were surprised with coffee each day and about 6 old friends during this project, I learned a lot along the way. Not only is it important to put yourself out there are be a little uncomfortable from time to time, but it’s also so valuable to know where your food or who your food is coming from. Having an added layer of awareness with what you’re eating makes you appreciate and value your food so much more.

The people I have met over the last two weeks have shown me that taking a moment to share a meal or share food in some way, allows you to share a basic human necessity that connects us all. This basic connection opens you up to so much when you are meeting someone new. Some of the stories you have when you are sitting and eating with new people is outstanding. The way each of the people from my journey have opened up to me, has made me feel incredibly happy. I have been overwhelmed with joy the last two weeks and I credit all the people I have met who have let me in to their worlds.

The Last Day

Today was the last day and I was pretty sad about it, but headed over to Kits to meet for first friends Adam & Kev of Adam & Kev photography and of Playground.is (which is coming in Calgary and Edmonton in MAY make sure you sign up if you live in those cities! It’s an amazing evening of music and community collaboration @Playgroundis). We grabbed a coffee at 49th Parallel and chatted. It was nice to get a coffee since I didn’t have time to run over to @BeanOnMain20th this morning!

Brunch

Then I wandered down a few more blocks to @FableKitchen to meet @lloydgo. Well I thought I was just meeting Lloyd! It turned out to be 7 other amazing strangers who were all so wonderful, hilarious and ready to seriously drink on this #BoozyBrunch Sunday morning! We had a killer brunch and way more laughs than seems normal. Thank you for the best time! Yes, there may or may not have been morning shots happening!

It’s officially been one week! One week down and another to go. What an experience it has been so far, and I wish I was doing it longer. It’s wonderful meeting so many great people.

Breakfast

This morning I made my way to The Bellagio Cafe at Robson and Hornby to meet @TheFelixKay for breakfast. I had never been here before, so I was excited to try something new. Felix is a hilarious and wonderful guy who writes for Vancity Buzz as well as many other publications. (You can find him on facebook here.) We had a great chat about work, personal brands and realized we are both Geminis! (I even guessed his exact birthday? It was incredibly random). I had an awesome egg white omelet and we drank the hell out of their coffee to try and combat our sleepiness. This is definitely someone I will hang out with again! Thanks for the great breakfast and fun chats Felix.

Thursday came so quickly this week, didn’t it? Day 4 came and went pretty fast and it was another great one.

Coffee!

Just like every gorgeous day, I started it at Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for my morning coffee and surprise and delight with another stranger. This morning it was the lovely, Reid that was standing in line behind me (had he not held the door for me, he would have been in front of me and that would have sucked for him!) I don’t know how, but it seems that each day there is a cute mid 20s – mid 30s man? I am so in to this! Take note, this is clearly a good spot for some attractive men watching on Main street.

The day was long and my lunch consisted of left over Filipino food from @Deedls and some carrots from the donated gift card from @MetropolisatMet. I was looking forward to dinner in the evening with @KinseySS (Steve!) since we were going for one of my favorite foods, SUSHI!

The third day! This morning I woke up slightly less sick than I was on Tuesday at the ripe ol’ hour of 6:30am to talk about #TweettoEat with The Early Show on CBC radio. Needless to say, coffee this morning was really calling my name.

Coffee!

As usual, I meandered over to Bean Around the World at Main and 20th (@BeanonMain20th), for my morning brew. I was able to surprise the wonderful Mike (as you can see below) with his coffee. In his morning daze, he thanked me and was very surprised. I just love this!

The rest of the day was full of wonderful food surprises at the office!